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  • image SM 65/3/12

Reference number

SM 65/3/12

Purpose

[1] Design for an obelisk, close to as built, May and June 1804

Aspect

Plan, elevation and section

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Elevation, Plan, Allow for stone to be below paving of the Market Place, A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, Copper, bronzed, gilt, c.d. is determined by drawiing / a.b. must be one Inch left in width / ½ / XX Qy In execution perhaps three or five deep flues e/ = Thiis shield will in the execution fill the whole space / O This (?) will correct by ? drawer and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 29/05/1804
    Lincolins Inn Fields / May 29th 1804and verso June 19.1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (678 x 565)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837)
Soane and Soane office hand

Verso

Design for a pineapple: marked 'K', dated 'June 19 1804. Drawn by Soane

Notes

The five-line inscription is in Soane's hand as are parts of the drawing. The verso is certainly by Soane. The drawing is close to the executed design and was preceded by (undated) drawings [2] and [3]. There is a small mahogany model for the obelisk (in the Soane museum) that is very close to drawing [1].

Level

drawing

Exhibition history

Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996
John Soane: Reading's Architectural Hero, Reading Museum, 5 May - 2 September 2007

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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